Info From Natural news.Are apricot seeds a source for a natural substance that kills cancer
cells without destroying the cancer victim's health and wealth? The
essential ingredient has been called laetrile or vitamin B 17. If there
is any merit to it, why is this information being suppressed? Why are
people who have been cured or have cured others being censured and
imprisoned? Could be there is something to the claims.

What is B17, or Laetrile Anyway?

In 1952, a biochemist
named Dr. Ernst Krebb, Jr. in San Francisco decided that cancer was a
metabolic reaction to a poor diet, and a missing nutrient from modern
man's diet could be the key to overcoming cancer. His research led to a
compound found in over 1200 edible plants throughout nature. That
compound is amagdylin,

Amagdylin is found with the highest
concentration and necessary enzymes in apricot seed kernels. A primitive
tribe, the Hunzas, were known to consume large amounts of apricot seed
kernels. The hard pit had to be broken to get into the soft kernels.
There was no incidence of cancer with them at all, ever. And they had
long, healthy life spans. Laetrile was created by simply extracting
amagdylin from the soft apricot kernels, purifying it and putting it
into a concentrated form.

Amagdylin is a nitrioloside.
Nitriolisides are difficult to categorize since they are in foods but
not foods themselves. As a nitrioloside, amagdylin resembled the B
complex structures, so Dr. Krebb called it B17 since by that time 16
types of B vitamins had been isolated.

Dr. Krebb injected himself
with laetrile to ensure there would be no toxic side effects. He
conducted further lab animal and culture experiments to conclude that
laetrile would be effective in the treatment of cancer.
By the way, the FDA standard for drug safety is known as LD 50, LD
stands for lethal dose, and the 50 is the percentage threshold of lab
animals poisoned to death by the drug tested. As long as the percentage
killed is under 50%, FDA will approve it!

Since laetrile
is derived directly from a food substance in nature and not chemically
developed in a laboratory, it is impossible to patent. And of course
it's not toxic. In other words, just as with all natural healing
substances, Big Pharma and the AMA can't make a fortune from the
substance and from the remedies for the long term side effects. There
have been several testimonies from cancer victims who cured themselves
by chewing large quantities of the apricot seeds alone.

The
seeds are more available to consumers now than laetrile because in 1971
the FDA banned laetrile. Laetrile is difficult, but not impossible, to
purchase. The seeds are actually the soft almond shaped, bitter tasting
kernels from inside the pits. A few users prefer extracting those soft
kernels from the pits themselves. But the soft kernels are available and
inexpensive.

So How Does It Work?

Amagdylin
contains four substances. Two are glucose; one is benzaldyhide, and one
is cyanide. Yes, cyanide and benzaldyhide are poisons if they are
released or freed as pure molecules and not bound within other molecular
formations. Many foods containing cyanide are safe because the cyanide
remains bound and locked as part of another molecule and therefore
cannot cause harm.

There is even an enzyme in normal cells to
catch any free cyanide molecules and to render them harmless by
combining them with sulfur. That enzyme is rhodanese, which catalyzes
the reaction and binds any free cyanide to sulfur. By binding the
cyanide to sulfur, it is converted to a cyanate which is a neutral
substance. Then it is easily passed through the urine with no harm to
the normal cells.

But cancer cells
are not normal. They contain an enzyme that other cells do not share,
beta-glucosidase. This enzyme, virtually exclusive to cancer cells, is
considered the "unlocking enzyme" for amagdylin molecules. It releases
both the benzaldyhide and the cyanide, creating a toxic synergy beyond
their uncombined sum. This is what the cancer cell's beta-glucosidase
enzyme does to self destruct cancer cells.

Amagdylin or laetrile
in conjunction with the protective enzymes in healthy cells and the
unlocking enzymes in cancer cells is thus able to destroy cancer cells
without jeopardizing healthy cells. Chemotherapy, on the other hand,
kills a lot of other cells and diminishes one's immune system while
killing an undetermined amount of cancer cells.

Those cancer
cells tend to return elsewhere because the patient's general health was
reduced from the pervasive chemo toxins. The cancer industry has
declared the bench mark for curing cancer as being cancer free for 5
years. It's estimated that of those who undergo the AMA big three for
curing cancer, surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, no more than 3%
make the 5 year cancer free mark. Besides the treatments' debilitating
effects, they are much more expensive!

But for someone with
cancer, it takes a considerable amount of daily B17 consumption to
enable the amagdylin to reach the cancer cells with beta-glucosidase.
That's because some of the amagdylin molecules will be neutralized by
the normal cells containing rhodanese.

Many practitioners who use laetrile have an 85% cure
rate among cancer victims who did not undergo much of the standard cut,
burn, and poison that is main-stream - while the cure rate for those
who come to laetrile therapy as a last resort after all that
conventional medicine could only have a 15% recovery rate. There is a
clinic in Mexico that claims a 100 percent cure rate!